Impersonating a Two-Year-Old

(Insert repeated foot stomping here.)

This. Is. Not. Fair.

I will NOT allow some two-bit rain-maker of a WAVE come into the Gulf of Mexico as a storm prior to October 2!

STOMP STOMP STOMP.

And maybe I was just too young to notice, but when I was growing up I don't remember Woody Asaf tracking a freaking wave off the coast of Africa. I'm pretty sure that until they named it, he didn't talk about it. I could be making that up. Maybe he did. I was a kid, I'm pretty sure I didn't care a whole lot at the time. But I care today.

We're leaving for a MUCH needed vacation on the beach in ELEVEN days. What does the weather thing I just read say? That this stupid WAVE, could be a threat to the U.S. ten or more days from now. TEN OR MORE DAYS? Oh no. Granted, it's so far out it could still go anywhere, and may never strengthen, which is why I wish we never even knew about these waves.

Six Degrees

When I was a senior in high school we had to memorize a certain number of lines of poetry for our English class. I got over half my lines by memorizing "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut" by Dr. Seuss.

I thought about that earlier today after explaining to Greg that I had a bright orange fish hand puppet at home, which was much like the fish in "One Fish, Two Fish" by the same esteemed poet. The aforementioned puppet had to be put away when it was discovered that he and Casper were not going to be BFF.

The hand puppet discussion was a result of seeing a nice variety of animal hand puppets at the gift shop at MRC this afternoon.

We were in the gift shop 15 minutes before the end of the work day to buy a birthday card.

We had to buy a card at the last minute because I left the card we so carefully picked out and bought last night at home.

The card we bought last night was just perfect for my mother-in-law, who we were taking out to dinner for her birthday tonight.

So there you have it. Six degrees of separation from Dr. Seuss to my mother-in-law.

Vicksburg

We knew that to do further testing on our new camera meant finding something interesting to photograph, other than the pup. Personally, having grown up in Vicksburg, I can't think of any place in the area more photogenic. I'd hoped to get to more sites, but thanks to slow service at dinner the sun was setting by the time we got down to the river landing. We took 161 pictures, testing different settings. Here are 19 of my favorites.

Translation

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Stacey!

Note to my family (and others as necessary):

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Note to Greg:

Even better.

Note to Stacey:

You rock. This made my day.

It's HEEEERE!

My new camera has arrived!!!

And here's the very first "turn it on and snap" picture:




Of course it's the pup. What else would I photograph???

By the time the battery charged it was dark, so I couldn't play with it outside, but I tested it in the house. Posted some of the more interesting samples on my Flickr. It does some really funky custom color stuff, and I tested out the super close up shots on the pup. He didn't appreciate it much , but you can count his whiskers in one of them. Of the hundred or so pics I took, I posted 14. Going to play with some of the other features and lighting tomorrow. Woohoo!